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Sewell E. Allen PapersAttorney and Iowa state legislator. Subject files and correspondence concerning his business, family and political career. The bulk of the papers consists of correspondence dealing with business conditions during the 1920s and WWII, politics, and family life.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Mary Johnston Elson papersIowa teacher from Jefferson County who taught in rural schools for forty-four years and was active in the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Rosa Knutson Gangestad papersThe daughter of Norwegian immigrants who came to Humboldt County, Iowa in 1872. Reflections on pioneer life through handwritten stories and letters for her grandchildren.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Ines Garcia papersMexican American whose family migrated to the U.S., and eventually to Iowa, in the early twentieth century.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Adelia St. John Gates papersGraduate of Genesee College in New York who moved to Waterloo, Iowa as a bride.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Marie Giddings papersDetailed account of farm and rural community life as Marie Giddings knew it growing up in Kossuth County during the early 20th century.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Blanche Basye Gilmore papersMemoir of wife, mother, and grandmother whose husband Eugene Gilmore was Vice Governor of the Phillippines in the 1920s and president of the University of Iowa from 1934 to 1940.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Madge Girard papersReflections on Girard's early life homesteading in South Dakota.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Icey Lenora Teel Harling papersLecturer, author and playwright who ran the Teel School of Expression in Davenport, 1918-1934 and was later a writer and editor for the Durant News.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Elvira Houston papersTama County, Iowa farmwoman who maintained the family account books for nearly fifty years. She ran for city council on the Women's Progressive Ticket in 1942.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Johnson Family papersLetters exchanged among members of this Cresco, Iowa, family.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Ruth Pitkanen Johnson papersArtist and educator from Finland who taught drawing theory at the University of Illinois.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Joiner Family papersIowa family that corresponded during World War II.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Virginia Jones papersCommunity activitst and writer Virginia Shrauger Jones grew up in Atlantic Iowa and served as a Captain in the U. S. Marine Corps during World War II.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Gladys Moeller Lage papersPersonal accounts of Lage's childhood and upbringing on a farm in Cedar County, Iowa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Kim Landhuis papersNative of Vietnam who became a teacher, school board member, and 1994 candidate for the Iowa senate.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Ann Larimer lettersQueen City, Iowa, resident who wrote to her husband while he was serving in the Civil War.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Helen Larson papersAnamosa and Iowa City resident who worked for the The University of Iowa Hospital.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Lois Laughlin papersPapers of an activist from West Branch, Iowa, include correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to her husband's status as a conscientious objector.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

McGill Family papersThe collection consists mainly of correspondence and includes the papers of early twentieth century labor activist, IWW member, and Buffalo school teacher, Pearl McGill.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Ellen Mowrer Miller papersCorrespondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Dorothy Misbach papersEducator whose lifelong career of working with partially seeing and blind students began in 1938 at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachussetts.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Pierce-Stuart Family papersDiaries of Mary Pierce describe family life in Harlan, Iowa from 1927 to 1947; Mary Clark's memoir reflects on medical challenges in the early 1900s.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Elizabeth "Bettye" Crawford Tate papersOwner and operator of the Tate Arms, a boarding house for African American male students at the University of Iowa during the 1940s and 1950s.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Trimble Family papersReminiscences of Gladys Trimble Leith and Marie Jeffers about their mother, Mary Pyle Trimble as well as their own childhood.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Magdalena "Helen" Tylee papersA German war bride who came to Iowa in 1922. During World War II she ran the family farm while her husband was serving in the armed forces.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Walling Family lettersOskaloosa family whose daughter Ivyl Walling Welton graduated from Grinnell College and moved to Tulsa, OklahomaRepository: Iowa Women's Archives

Esther J. Walls papersMason City, Iowa native and librarian who was the first African-American female student at University of Iowa elected to Phi Beta Kappa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Helen Lee Hensleigh Wenger papersUniversity of Iowa graduate and teacher whose papers include correspondence and scrapbook files relating to her work on a variety of social issues including gun control.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Marta Werner papersNative of Mexico who came to Fort Madison, Iowa in 1914. Her community activism centered on the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Lois Wescott papersGeology graduate of the University of Iowa who traveled to Japan and Venezuela to work for oil companies.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives